On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
> Which kernel options did you select for the Sparc console fonts support ?
For the logeintries of my last mail - none really as I used
`kernel-image-2.2.13' straight out of the box. By now I have rolled
my own kernel with the following options:
Hi,
thanks to the quick help from this list I managed to get my IPC
working by now. Even the booting problem is resolved.
For the (improbable) case that someone else experiences similar
problems I'll give a short summary:
As I remembered seeing the IPC trying to boot from sd(0,0,0) when the
int
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> That's weird. Let me check and make sure it's 's', but I JUST installed
> slink on an IPC within the past day or two and I KNOW it listed the new
> sun disklabel option. And my version of slink is the official CDs, like
> 2.1r0, so unless it was "patc
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> > What exactly do I need to put a Sun disk label on my disk? Solaris?? I
> > hope not :)
>
> You can do it with fdisk. It's in the manual:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-dbootstrap-partition
>
> (Does db
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> You'll need to put a new disk label on the drive. The OpenBoot PROM
> expects a Sun disk label. Otherwise you can't boot from it. The kernel
> will still understand the i386 disk label fine, but I assume you'd like
> to be able to boot it. This is p
Hi,
I ran this against `debian-user' but to no avail. So I'll try again
at this more specific place. Thanks for any help...
I just got hold of an old Sparc IPC that nobody used anymore and tried
to install Debian on it after swapping the defective first hard disk
with an old scsi disk lying aro
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